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CGD in the News
December 19, 2007
The Washington Monthly quotes CGD Vice President for Special Initiatives, Dennis de Tray, on local grants distributed to small villages in Afghanistan.
From the article:
"....Guggenheim designed a program that would distribute small grants to villages....Local leaders were charged with administeri...
WORKING PAPERS
December 13, 2007
One story popular in development circles tells how Uganda slashed corruption simply by publicly disclosing the amount of monthly grants to schools--thus making it harder for officials to siphon off money for their own enrichment. This working paper finds that while the percentage of funds being dive...
Nov
28
2007
2:00—4:00 PM
November 16, 2007
"Governance Matters: Debunking the Afro-pessimism Myth” will use the recent update of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) well-known global governance indicators (www.govindicators.org) to spark a policy discussion about measuring governance, policy actions to improve governance, and whether "afro-pess...
CGD NOTES
November 12, 2007
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provides more than $5 billion per year to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Exactly how is that money spent? Donors, recipients, and even PEPFAR staff are often left guessing, because much of the extensive data the U.S. government collects on the pro...
MCC MONITOR ANALYSIS
October 22, 2007
The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) will soon release performance data that will form the basis of its FY2008 country selection round. The only indicator that countries must pass to qualify for MCC money is Control of Corruption. CGD's Sheila Herrling and Sarah Rose have crunched the numbers for t...
WORKING PAPERS
October 01, 2007
CGD visiting fellow Vijaya Ramachandran and co-authors Manju Kedia Shah and Gaiv Tata used firm-level survey data from more than 1,500 enterprises in six African countries to discover how and why African firms lobby. Their working paper concludes that larger, entrenched firms lobby to protect their ...
Oct
16
2007
12:30—2:00 PM
October 01, 2007
The Investment Climate Facility (ICF) brings together governments, private sector entrepreneurs and multilateral institutions to implement business reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its launch, the ICF has increased committed donor funding more than 50% from 80 million last year to over $120 mill...